I am on the phone to the imaginary agent of Stephen Fry. The agent is sorry, but the imaginary Stephen is booked solid for several months. As a popular person to invite to imaginary perfect dinner parties, I need to understand it is hard for him to make time to come. I try the imaginary …
Category archives: Travel
31 days: P is for postcard
I mentioned the poetry postcard yesterday: so it really had to start the series off. This is the postcard I picked up. I loved the title: The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth. Some day, if I’m feeling brave, I may write my own story to that title. Although the poem itself does focus …
Owning your own orchard (for a week)
Can’t sleep. I’ve passed that point where you might drift off naturally, and am back into the point of brain-whirring. Time to get up then. To give way to the brain, read a little, write a little, calm the system down. And eat a little, to encourage the body to slow too. In the past, …
Game on: story cubes
Hello again. Â It’s been a while. Building work, junior player being ill rather a lot, family celebrations and even a trip abroad to add to the mix. Lots of living – less writing. Those of you who’ve read the blog in the past know that there’s a seasonal shift around this time of year. Â Autumn …
Game on: Happy Families
I have ummed and ahhed about including this one. Â Even the name feels un-PC these days, let alone the expectation that a family necessarily has mum, dad, boy and girl. But part of the point of games is that they work. Â The junior player I was with had no such qualms – she liked the …